The project will lessen the countryβs dependence on imported energy, though environmental advocates say it undercuts a pledge to reduce carbon emissions.
A cooling tower of a fossil-fuel-burning power plant in Indiana. The U.S. has adopted a policy of encouraging fossil fuels, a major contributor to climate change.
Jackdaw, a natural gas field off the coast of Scotland, would be the first new gas extraction project in the North Sea since a government moratorium in 2024.
The dire projections come from the stateβs Climate Change Assessment, which analyzes the impacts of changing weather patterns on the nationβs most-populous state.
The report finds that without major intervention, as much as three-quarters of Californiaβs beaches could disappear β either seasonally or permanently β by 2100 because of coastal erosion.
A sugarcane crop withered by El NiΓ±o in India, the worldβs second-largest producer, is hurting consumers and farmers β plus undermining the countryβs energy security goals.
A worker tending to a sugarcane crop in Maharashtra, India, in September.
The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike, in Tyre, Lebanon in May. Global conflicts are deepening the divide between economic winners and losers, the International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday.
The justices began their new term with a landmark dispute over whether local governments can hold oil companies liable for damages from climate change.
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